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414 BETWEEN THE OCEAN AND THE LAKES N E W A X L> RAILROAD, 9L-Ml .... *prfcss]Y ajjwtf , 4»P& tlmt tli.0 Company shall not bo ; liable, under any circuin- • stnnocsi whether of ncgli- 1 •ronco by their Agents or. otherwise, for any injury to,; the person, or for any loss or ! I ifM^^tO^ft. "njurv to the property of the i Pii.^st'nger using President. the Ticket, 7Vie Conductor icill, in all cases, collect thitiu^tuss t I ^^•JL (Obverse.) Tjil O o » C^ ^ — = o Ri rjp=; J3f |3 ijfl igg •s c ^ - i «! fi '3j 'P 2 IS, n o 99 3 2 3 «= k?"3 •3*0 s««: , g j> P- rt e •§ _M . k- hr ^ o -* .2 >.^ EH WEpwUSwu rjaffta-iftmiggBii^i W2 P* mm «ss.2;'cai'v:W:i-Ki 1* ~.cpjv?%p* s, S0Q« mc> S-= so '-> A MORAN FREE PASS—1859. NORTHRUP COLLECTION.
THE STORY OF ERIE 4'5 something was wrong in time to save themselves by jumping. The scene just after the accident had occurred was piteous in the extreme. A hundred head of cattle were writhing in torture, and making the whole mass active by their throes, in the vain endeavor to extricate themselves, some with their horns broken off, and some held fast by means of the ruin piled upon them. Their cries were heart-rending. Some of the poor creatures, mad with pain, their eyes starting from their sockets, seemed bent on wreaking vengeance on whatever object was nearest to them. Others, subdued by their sufferings, moaned piteously, and gazed about as if imploring release. The imprisoned sheep that were alive simply- bleated plaintively, while a few of their companions that had happened to escape and clamber from the wreck went quietly to nibbling grass by the roadside, indifferent to the misery of their fellows. The swine that were part of the writhing, moaning mass were belligerent, after their kind, and those beneath the ruins fought with each other as long as there was life left in them, while the more lucky ones that escaped made for the woods as if flying from some impending danger. As soon as the momentary panic had subsided, the men who had escaped injury set to work to relieve their companions. It was soon ascertained that the drover Randall and the brakeman Tice were near each other, both alive, and by no means despairing. Soon Randall's voice was heard. He was discovered buried among the fragments of the cars, and directly beneath a large ox, which was still alive, and at times greatly distressed the helpless drover by kicking him on the breast. Randall was perfectly sensible, and gave directions as to howhe could best be removed. He thought he could endure the weight of the ox until it could be taken away piecemeal. The ox was therefore shot, but in its dying struggles kicked Randall so violently in the breast as to deprive him of life. Immediately before his death he spoke much of his life, stating that he had a wife and four children. The same ox lay partly across Tice, the brakeman, who died before he could be extricated from his frightful situation. There was no telegraph in use along the railroad yet, although a line was being put up. A man was sent on horseback to Lackawaxen, four miles east of the scene of the accident, to inform John M. Williamson, the Company's agent at that point. Williamson despatched a messenger to Port Jervis, down the tow-path of the Delaware and Hudson Canal, twenty-three miles, to carry the news to Division Superintendent Power. The Superintendent at once startetl for the scene of the accident with a relief train. Agent Williamson hastened to Mast Hope. Clapp, the other drover, had been found and taken from the wreck in the meantime, alive, but terribly mutilated. By the time Superintendent Power arrived, Agent Williamson had ordered the wounded cattle, sheep, and hogs shot. All the dead beasts were buried in a vast trench, but the task was a long and tedious one ; so long, in fact, that, the weather being intensely hot, the carcasses began to putrefy before the work was done, adding new unpleasantness to the already accumulated horrors. Coe Little was the conductor of the train, and Nat. Hatch engineer. BRINGING THE TELEGRAPH INTO USE FOR RAILk< IADING. The Krie, through Charles Minot, and' through his successor, I). C. McCallum, attracted the eyes of the whole country tu the value of the telegraph as a vital agent in the management of railroads, the running of trains, anil the safety of passengers. What was known as the New York antl Erie Telegraph Line was begun in August, 1847. It was not a work of the New York and Erie Railroad Company, as its title might imply. Ezra Cornell was the projector of the line, and while he was constructing it through the southern New York counties, taking the wagon roads for his route, Charles Minot was watching him. Minot early saw the value of the telegraph to railroads, and how it might be employed to direct the movement of trains at every point along the road. He induced the Railroad Company to construct a line of telegraph poles and wires along the margin of the railroad, without reference to patents, and without determining the machinery to be employed. It was constructed by the railroad workmen. Mr. Cornell supplied insulators and also Morse machinery for the offices to be opened. The insulators were of brimstone, enclosed in iron pots, and of but small value. On the completion of the P>rie telegraph line, Superintendent Minot offered to purchase for the Erie the Morse patent on fair terms. Mr. Smith, one of the owners of the patent, refused to sell. He invited the New York and Erie Railroad Company to become stockholders in the Telegraph Company, and thus acquire the right to use the Morse instruments. By this time, however, the Cornell line had so shown its unreliable character that Mr. Minot declined the invitation. He wrote, also, very placidly to Mr. Smith that his notion was that, after its completion, " our Company would make arrangements with the New York and Erie Telegraph Company to work it for us." After a short struggle against circumstances the wire of the Cornell line was, in 185 2 and 1853, transferred from the poles along the turnpikes to those of the Railroad Company, and by gradual processes the line became massed with and faded into the property of that Company. In 1852 the title of the company was changed to The New York and Western Union Telegraph. In 1851 the New York and Erie Railroad Company, having constructed its telegraph line, placed it under two superintendents. L. O. Tillotson was intrusted with the section between Owego and New York, and Charles L. Chapin with the section from Owego to Dunkirk. In 1852 Tillotson was made sole superintendent. Luther O. Tillotson was but nineteen years old when he became superintendent of the Erie Telegraph. He was born in Ithaca, N. Y., March 1, 1834. His father was a friend of Ezra Cornell, and became a telegraph constructor. At the age of fifteen Luther began
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REFERENCE Carnegie Library of Pitts
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